Retirement Editor, Kiplinger

by Kay Tay | Jul 26, 2023 | Uncategorized

Kiplinger is the go to destination for personal finance advice in the US. Kiplinger’s Personal Finance monthly magazine advises its readers on investing and managing their money and spending it wisely.

We’re looking for a knowledgeable and enthusiastic Retirement Editor who is also an experienced writer to work on stories in the retirement space for the brand’s website.

What you’ll be doing…

As Retirement Editor at Kiplinger, you’ll be editing multiple high-level articles per day for Kiplinger’s informed readers. The editor should also be able to contribute to writing retirement coverage on a regular basis. We expect this person to be a hands-on team player with an eye for news, storytelling, grammar and technical information, with high standards to get information right.

You’ll edit 2-4 articles per day from staff and freelancers, write multiple stories each week, manage freelance assignments as needed and produce stories on the Kiplinger CMS. You’ll also edit for clarity, accuracy, style and voice and contribute to related newsletters as needed.

Experience that will put you ahead of the curve…

• Proven experience of digital editing and writing
• Knowledge of retirement topics. Knowledge of tax topics is a plus
• Attention to detail and eye for style
• Understanding of SEO practices and analytics
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders, including team leadership and reporters, while working through content in a timely manner
• Some newsletter and/or social media experience a plus
• Commitment to quality and accuracy

What’s in it for you…

We have a number of awesome perks available to our staff. We offer huge opportunities to learn and develop, whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects or informal lunch & learns, hosted by your colleagues. We have a fantastic culture where we really do care about our people and want everyone to succeed. Varied roles mean you’re not pigeonholed into one finite area but get the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills and experience.

Additional benefits include health Insurance; ranging from medical to dental and even vision care, 401k match and monthly munchies, bagel Fridays, fresh fruit & snacks and coffee and tea on tap.

And to top it all off, not only do we offer unlimited holiday because we trust you to manage your workload and time but we also offer a share in our success whereby every member of staff receives a profit pool bonus at the end of our financial year.

Please note, salary range for this position is $58,500 – $110,000.

* Internal job family level E5.

Who are we…

We’re Future. We’re 3000+ colleagues over 250+ brands speaking to 400 million people every month across the globe through websites, events and magazines. We’ve got ambitious plans that build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities and we’re looking for talented people who want to be a part of it.

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Senior Manager, Social Media

by Kay Tay | Jul 26, 2023 | Uncategorized

The salary range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:
 Pay Range: $96,400.00 – $154,300.00

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

Job Profile Summary:

The Senior Manager, Social Media is responsible for driving the strategy and execution of the university’s owned social media efforts, including developing and implementing plans and strategies and integrating the social media initiatives of all WGU departments to generate awareness, website visits, and prospective students for university growth. Includes managing the production calendar and schedule for testimonials, articles, white papers, and ebooks to support college initiatives and will require close collaboration with the college marketing directors and communication leads to align content needs to MarCom initiatives. Social media work will also include promotion of content through native placements that align to university objectives and KPIs.

This role will also own the strategy and execution of earned social media for the university, directly managing a team who is responsible for increasing awareness and interest of a prospective student audience as well as connecting with higher education, policy, and media influencers, among others. The incumbent will work closely with other social media stakeholders across the university to ensure all social media audiences, channels, and posts align to WGU brand standards, attributes, and voice, and manage the university social media calendar, meeting with audience owners and stakeholders regularly to review posting schedules and university alignment.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Create and execute social media strategies that drive university, college, and region priorities with owned media opportunities.
• Recruit, train, and develop a high-performing team.
• Establish processes for effective and efficient collaboration across the MarCom team and with other key stakeholders.
• Lead and manage social media planning, strategy, integration, and implementation for the university.
• Create and maintain WGU’s social media plan.
• Collaborate with other departments to integrate social media efforts.
• Develop content for social media, including articles, posts, and video.
• Develop ideas and strategies for social media stories and content.
• Brainstorm and develop social media plans.
• Support MarCom by providing editing and proofreading support.
• Build relationships of trust with leaders across the university; facilitate strong cross-organizational information sharing and cooperative strategy development.
• Fulfill a high-level MarCom strategy role, understanding how efforts with content and social media work together and in support of paid marketing efforts.
• Be a vocal, engaged expert in all social media activities and understand how these activities influence and support other marketing and communications initiatives. Work cross-functionally and collaboratively across MarCom functions to align plans.
• Closely monitor and manage owned social media accounts; quickly identify issues and work with cross-org partners to resolve, including escalating as appropriate.
• Assist with setting college-specific and university-wide performance targets, and provide regular reporting, forecasts, and root-cause insights to inform ongoing adjustments to drive KPIs.
• Drive college-specific and university-wide initiatives, partnering with various teams across MarCom to translate strategies into tactical execution.
• Work closely with the internal and agency creative teams to ensure that content requests are accurate, on time, and on brand.
• Work closely with Director of Brand Marketing, Creative Director, Sr. Director of External Communications, and external media and creative agencies to ensure all content and owned/earned media align to the WGU brand standards, attributes, and voice. Develop and manage content and social media guidelines for brand protection and evangelism.

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:

• Experience managing cross-functional teams, vendors, and technology providers.
• Exceptional communication ability. Must be able to clearly and persuasively communicate both verbally and in writing with cross-functional teams and staff at all levels of the university.
• Strong quantitative and strategic analysis skills. Must be able to gather and analyze data and research identify significant trends, implications, and opportunities in earned media.
• Exceptional project management and organization skills.
• Drive and ability to influence others to act without direct reporting authority.
• Brand, editorial, content, and social media experience.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Meaningful stakeholder management experience.
• Demonstrated track record of managing multiple complex projects at one time.
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Communications, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in marketing roles.
• Familiarity with best practices across multiple social platforms (including but not limited to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok) and CMS platforms (including but not limited to Sprout Social, HootSuite).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Editorial and content development experience.
• Experience managing vendor relationships and technology platforms.
• Experience with Meltwater.

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Senior Writer

by Kay Tay | Jul 26, 2023 | Uncategorized

Ritual is a personal health brand that is building the future of daily essentials. Our mission is simple: we help turn healthy habits into a Ritual. We started by creating the first visible supply chain of its kind and reinventing the daily multivitamin from the ground up. Now, together with some of the world’s leading scientists, researchers and advisors, we’re developing a new standard of high-quality, traceable daily products across new categories. Hundreds of thousands of customers across generations trust us, and we are growing quickly. 

We’ve built a team of over 120 (and counting) curious skeptics, world-class scientists, unconventional artists, expert marketers, and analytical strategists. We’re venture-backed and based in sunny Los Angeles. If you’re looking to challenge the status quo and be challenged to do the best work of your career, join us.

Essential 

We’re in search of a Senior Writer with a copywriting and editorial background. You will be responsible for leading copy from concept to completion and helping to raise the bar for creative excellence at Ritual. 

You’re a team-player who’s committed to clever, inclusive, and inventive copy for everything from brand campaigns to packaging to longform journal articles. You’re a health and science enthusiast. You’re a life-long learner. In this role, you’ll report to the Creative Director of Writing, and collaborate with scientists, marketers, and multi-disciplinary creatives.

You’re an expert in using copy and brand voice to develop compelling and impactful brand experiences and narratives. You’re a strong storyteller with a pulse on trends and conversations that are shaping the world locally and globally. You’re intent on guiding a team through the process of translating research, company goals, and high-level strategy into inspiring and successful creative solutions.

You’ll be entrusted with the Ritual brand and expected to help move it forward. Plus, you’ll have a hand in building an enriching and respectful environment for hardworking creatives.

What You’ll Do:

• Conceptualize and deliver big, narrative driven ideas across media and platforms including collateral, packaging, social media, web, loyalty programs, and more. 
• Write and edit longform, science-backed content for the journal.
• Manage a roster of freelancer writers and contributors. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create work consistent with the broader company vision and initiatives.
• Drive continual improvement in our creative quality, thinking and capabilities
• Proof creative work to ensure quality, accuracy and consistency
• Inspire through your presence as you help lead and mentor multidisciplinary creatives. 
• Cultivate positive relationships among our internal teams, within the creative team, direct reports, and other partners. 
• Champion creativity within the company via critical creative thinking and critique to help shape outstanding work
• Partner with creative operations including planning, recruiting and resourcing.

Who You Are:

• Strategic thinker. You are a highly-strategic, creatively minded and results oriented marketer with a proven track record in campaign development and product storytelling
• Curious. You are a cultural sponge who is always absorbing the latest trends about our category, competitors, and culture at large
• Collaborator. You possess exceptional collaboration skills, and abilities to build strong partnerships with cross-functional partners that facilitate team success
• Communicator. You are an exceptional writer that combines observations and quantitative data to create stories that resonate 
• Gutsy. You understand that not all decisions can be made solely with numbers, and can blend intuition with data to guide decisions
• Self Motivated. You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that requires an ability to learn and adapt quickly

What You Need:

• Education: Bachelor degree or equivalent work experience. 
• Experience: 5 years minimum of copywriting experience, preferably a mix of agency and in-house.
• Leadership and crafting of brands across touchpoints, i.e. identities, tone & voice, print, digital product, acquisition, social, packaging.
• Effective collaboration with cross-functional partners. TV/Video experience a plus
• Ambition: You take initiative and proactively show up with new ideas to lead the creative work forward
• Empathy: Compassion for teammates and meticulous focus on the user.Evidence:
• Evidence: A current, diverse portfolio of real, produced writing work that demonstrates innovation and a track record of building top lifestyle brands.
• Communicate: You explain complex ideas and the rationale behind your writing well.

Compensation and Benefits:

• PAY RANGE:  $73,000 – $115,000
• Your base salary is one part of your total compensation package. The salary range represents the entire compensation range for this position. Exact compensation will depend on a number of factors, which may include the successful candidate’s skills, level, years of experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. This role is also eligible for equity + generous benefits + 401k + unlimited PTO etc – see our list of perks/ benefits below.

Additional Benefits and Perks:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Healthcare & Dependent Care FSA
• Equity participation
• 401k Match – Up to 4%
• Pet Insurance
• Free Ritual Forever
• Unlimited PTO – 10 days minimum to keep you fresh
• 18 paid holidays
• Bi-Annual Performance Reviews
• “Ritual First Fridays” – Entire company takes off the first Friday of each month while we are working remotely
• 5 months paid maternity/paternity leave and we cover health insurance during any additional time taken under-protected baby bonding time off
• Flex time for returning to work birth-parents
• Childcare stipend (monthly expense)
• New hire set up stipend
• Maven Clinic, a family planning platform for all Ritual and employees and dependents.
• Periodic group workouts with trainers on Zoom
• Annual wellness stipend

Why Ritual?

Since launching in October 2016, Ritual has grown to be a cultural revolution in the health industry. We’re not about pseudoscience, half-truths or health fads. We are simple, effective, and backed by real science. We have some pretty great benefits & perks for full-time employees related to our office environment, however, they have been limited due to the global health situation.

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Seller Email & Push Marketing Manager

by Kay Tay | Jul 25, 2023 | Uncategorized

Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect millions of entrepreneurs with millions of buyers around the world. As an Etsy Inc. employee whether a team member of Etsy, Reverb, or Depop you will tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human

Job Description

What’s the Role?

Etsy’s CRM team is responsible for the strategy, roadmap, data integration, production, deployment, and analysis of marketing campaigns. These campaigns help more than 40 million buyers worldwide find and purchase the perfect item on Etsy and provide over 6 million sellers with the support they need to continue to grow their business on Etsy.

We’re looking for a Seller Email & Push Marketing Manager to join the CRM team to reach our sellers and deliver the tools and education that help them manage their small businesses. As a Seller Email & Push Marketing Manager, you will build personalized customer experiences through the email and push channel, including using automation to target the right customer at the right time in the lifecycle to enable their success as a seller on Etsy. We are looking for someone who is excited by the prospect of improving channel marketing through user segmentation, data-driven automation, content optimization, and product improvements.

This is a full-time position and reporting to the Director, Seller CRM and the base salary range will be 91,000.00-119,000.00 USD USD per year. In addition to salary, you will also be eligible for an equity package, an annual performance bonus, and our competitive benefits that support you and your family as part of your total rewards package at Etsy. For this role, we are considering candidates based in the United States.You will have the option to work office-based, flex or remotely. Candidates living within commutable distance of the Etsy Brooklyn Hub, or within the San Francisco area, may be the first to be considered. Etsy offers different work modes to meet the variety of needs and preferences of our team. Learn more about our Flex and Office-based work modes and workplace safety policies here.

What does the day-to-day look like?

• Drive and lead Seller Email and Push marketing, developing the roadmap and prioritizing CRM programs to deliver on seller goals through continuous iteration and experimentation with a cross-functional team. 
• Co-create channel tactics including planning and developing our marketing calendar in alignment with core stakeholders delivering and leveraging insights to improve the performance of campaigns and overall Etsy customer experience. 
• Work with our Database Marketing team to target key seller cohorts with personalized messaging and content at scale
• Execute longitudinal and multi-variant testing across multiple audiences and launch experiments to optimize the channel performance with a focus on meeting or exceeding CRM goals, including seller growth.
• Use HTML and Braze to build and deploy email and push campaigns, and triggers and experiments to briefs and specifications. This may include: Building HTML templates with personalized content and / or Braze Canvases
• Delivering and maintaining analytics reporting that measures the performance of each campaign on a daily, weekly, monthly, and annual basis.
• Continuously improve processes and efficiency to ensure the team remains agile and responsive to the business.
• Sharing daily and weekly updates on your work and your progress towards goals.
• Occasionally working outside of normal business hours such as weekends, late nights, or early mornings depending on campaign launch times.
• Of course, this is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at Etsy’s discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law.

Qualifications

Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are:

• 5+ years direct marketing experience with proven success in executing highly targeted email and push marketing programs in a fast-paced environment.
• You have built sophisticated multi-channel strategies, experimentation roadmaps, and have strong technical experience in Marketing Automation Platforms and third-party email providers (Braze preferred), especially orchestrating omni-channel messaging journeys.
• Organized, efficient, and inventive leadership with advanced problem solving skills, outstanding attention to detail, effective communication skills, and excellent time management abilities.
• Accountability to deliver high quality work and are proactive to share new ideas with peers and leadership.
• CAN-SPAM/CASL/GDPR requirements and inbox deliverability standards.
• The basics of data segmentation and data attribution 
• Some SQL knowledge is required.
• Intermediate HTML skills

Additional Information

What’s Next

If you’re interested in joining the team at Etsy, please share your resume with us and feel free to include a cover letter if you’d like. As we hope you’ve seen already, Etsy is a place that values individuality and variety. We don’t want you to be like everyone else — we want you to be like you! So tell us what you’re all about.

Our Promise

At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace furthers relevance, resilience, and longevity. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Etsy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during any part of the interview process, please let your recruiter know. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skills.

For U.S. roles only:

Many Etsy roles are open to remote candidates, and you’ll be able to identify which ones within the location header of each job description. We’re open to remote hires from all U.S. states except Hawaii and Alaska.

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Technical Writer

by Kay Tay | Jul 25, 2023 | Uncategorized

ShowMojo streamlines the residential rental process, and vastly improves the leasing experience for property managers and renters alike. Our company is growing rapidly, with customers in all 50 states. To learn more about us visit: showmojo.com

VALUES

ShowMojo strives to connect individuals that closely align with our values:

• Do you have the confidence to exchange opinions in an open environment with respectful candor?
• Are you self-directed and able to proactively solve problems?
• Do you pride yourself on showing up prepared and feel personal responsibility to see your accountabilities through to completion?

If this resonates with your personal values, we would like to have a career discussion with you.

OVERVIEW

We are looking for a Technical Writer to produce high-quality documentation that contributes to the overall success of our customers, operations, products and services. Also important in this role are an ability to evaluate and analyze complex information and a natural desire to help people understand it.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain and update company knowledge bases.
• For the customer knowledge base, focus on easy-to-follow explanations and instructions that accurately represent the ShowMojo platform and feature set.
• Act as the ShowMojo wiki gardener, supporting continuous documentation on the part of all ShowMojo’s team members.
• Support managers and team members by gathering details on and writing process documents and SOPs.
• Own and enforce ShowMojo’s style guide for each knowledge base.
• Provide proofreading and quality reviews for other teams including marketing, sales and product development.
• Assist marketing and sales on straightforward writing tasks

Requirements

• Three or more years of experience as an effective technical writer.
• Superb written communication skills, with a keen eye for detail.
• Ability to quickly grasp complex technical concepts and make them easily understandable in text and pictures.

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